KATIBA: Where Tanzania went wrong on Constitution

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Tanzania Constitution Forum seeks draft constitution distributed before referendum
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The Tanzania Constitution Forum (TCF) has called on the government to distribute copies of the draft constitution before it goes to a vote in the March referendum, Tanzania's Daily News reported Tuesday (December 30th).
Call for mass dtribution of recommended Katiba copiesDaily News
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When I heard the news of the postponement of the Constituent Assembly next month to resume after the 2015 General Election, I found the whole thing deeply troubling. I asked myself: to what end? Where did we go astray? Were we ever on the right course?

Hardly three weeks remain before the Constituent Assembly (CA) resumes in Dodoma for another 60-day marathon meeting.

If CCM continues debating in the Katiba Assembly while the Coalition of Defenders of the People’s Constitution (Ukawa) has boycotted it the entire process will lack legal and political legitimacy, an expert has warned.

During the next weeks, members of the Constituent Assembly will be discussing issues that will have a large bearing on Tanzanians’ future. The new Constitution, as it has been anticipated, will redefine rights, powers and duties that are going to structure the relationship between the people and their government.

>You are either with the Palestinians or with Israel. I am with the Palestinians. Look, Israel has elastic borders, which it extends outwards at the slightest pretext and totally and utterly in disregard of international opinion or law. It occupies the land of the Palestinians, builds settlements on it and imposes a land, air and sea blockade against Gaza.

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